Shadi Ghadirian

By Ed. Rose Issa

AED 65.00

“Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder.”—Shadi Ghadirian
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About the Book:

Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran’s leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and her work has been collected by museums worldwide. She came to the limelight in the late 1990s with her Qajar series, in which she examines the paradoxical position of women in Iran. Women in traditional clothing pose with items such as a mountain bike or a boom box.

 

About the Photographer:

Rose Issa is a freelance curator, specialised in contemporary visual arts and films from the Arab world and Iran.

 

Book Specifications:

Name: Shadi Ghadirian: A Woman Photographer from Iran

ISBN:  978-0863566387

Publisher: Saqi Books 

Author: Rose Issa

Language: English

Price: AED 55

Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.3 x 9.9 inches

Cover: Paperback

Pages: 64